Quote (Thor123422 @ Dec 24 2020 09:12pm)
Everything is indeed a theory. Something becomes a conspiracy theory when it's claim is that there's an organization of people trying to make something happen. There are absolutely conspiracies that are taking place, but they're more mundane than what we usually label as "conspiracy theory". I'll give you another one. Billionaires absolutely attempt to interfere in the democratic will of the people. It's just that it's not through vote tampering. They actively shut out people with ideas that would harm their interests very early in the process so by the end you only have a choice between two acceptable candidates. That's why the two candidates for 2016 and 2020 were an establishment candidate and a fellow billionaire.
The claim that "if you wait for a theory to be substantiated they will always be able to hide the evidence" is insanely stupid. That isn't how you function in literally any other aspect of your life. You don't assume the mechanic is trying to destroy your car because you'd never be able to prove it if you didn't first suspect it, you don't assume your parents are secretly spies sent to watch you, etc. etc. Your way of thinking here literally mandates that you accept every claim no matter how outlandish because if you didn't you would never get to see the evidence. This is Russel's Teapot shit lol.
As a side note, we know for a fact that quantum electrodynamics is wrong. For certain things, like the magnetic moment of the electron, it is insanely accurate. For others, it is insanely inaccurate. So we know it's wrong, because we know it's incomplete. The weaknesses of theories in science aren't swept under the rug. They are put front and center and people are incentivized to solve them, and when you solve them you usually get a ton of attention and if your idea stands up to scrutiny you get a Nobel Prize and you're kept in the history books long after you're dead.
sorry for late response, computer died

anyways, i never said the bolded text, i said, and i quote:
"if you wait for a theory to be substantiated enough in order to start believing in it, they you will never create any on your own because you lack imagination and belief, and are the very definition of a midwit"
mistyped "then" as "they" but my brain autocorrected it so i didnt notice

anyways! this means that someone who just waits for something to be overwhelmingly proven correct in order to consider it plausible, is nothing more than an upgraded nihilist, and he will never create any theory on his own, conspiracy or otherwise. those people are best qualified for jobs that require precision and mathematical intelligence, but no intuition, "groundwork" so to say. a vast majority of them has an iq slightly above average, rarely going over 120~130, and are what is considered a "midwit" as you can see here:
now, you might notice that this does describe you

that wasnt my intention, but what can i say, we all fit some kind of a psychological profile

hell, its not good to have an extremely high iq either, so i wouldnt really consider this an insult

edit: also in my book incomplete isnt the same as wrong

subjective i guess but still
This post was edited by Snyft2 on Dec 26 2020 05:41am